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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Jeremy Noel-Tod [Noel-Tod, Jeremy]

abglanz / reflected gleam from the field borders flows a dried-out baking quiet of thistledown and crumbs of soil. a grey velvet, which scratches on the throat and makes a ...
( Category: Anthologies January 17,2020 )
The Measure of Our Lives by Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” “Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Sharon Olds [Olds, Sharon]

41, Alone, No Gerbil In the strange quiet, I realize there’s no one else in the house. No bucktooth mouth pulls at a stainless-steel teat, no hairy mammal runs on ...
( Category: Poetry January 16,2020 )
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Robin Behn

THE SHORT NARRATIVE POEM Roland Flint Write a poem, eleven to fifteen lines long, in which you tell a story. Specifics: First of all, your poem must tell the story ...
( Category: Love Poems January 12,2020 )
In the Palm of Your Hand by Steve Kowit
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Kowit

A poor working stiff named McGuire ˘ / ˘˘/ ˘˘/ consigned to the Stygian Fire ˘ / ˘˘/ ˘˘/ sent a fax to the Devil: ˘˘ / ˘˘/ ˘ Are ...
( Category: United States January 12,2020 )
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin
epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:Aleksandr Pushkin

VII Lacking the lofty passion not to spare life for the sake of sounds, an iamb from a trochee he could not— [4] no matter how we strove—distinguish; dispraised Homer, ...
( Category: Russian January 8,2020 )
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Jonathan Dollimore

1 See especially Lewes’s detailed recent history, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality. 2 Writing in 1948, Kinsey and others pointed out that previous so-called ‘scientific’ classifications of perversions by ...
( Category: LGBT January 3,2020 )
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe [Anderson, Sherwood & Howe, Irving]

Wash Williams and George Willard arose from the pile of railroad ties and walked along the tracks toward town. The operator finished his tale quickly, breathlessly. “Her mother sent for ...
( Category: Short Stories December 30,2019 )
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

In the early days of that Autumn, as the activity in the nest died down, the book was brought to its end, and the pages, William’s science, William’s brooding, Miss ...
( Category: Victorian December 25,2019 )
Sugar and Other Stories by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

ON THE DAY THAT E. M. FORSTER DIED This is a story about writing. It is a story about a writer who believed, among other things, that time for writing ...
( Category: Short Stories December 25,2019 )
The Matisse Stories by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-12-12 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

Shona McRury has topaz eyes and long, silky brown hair, like a huge ribbon, caught up at the back with a tortoiseshell comb. She wears topaz ear-rings, little spheres on ...
( Category: Surrealism December 25,2019 )
Darkly by Leila Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Leila Taylor

JOOST THE FIDDLER WHO SLAYED But the dent in that boulder isn’t really the Devil’s footprint and the location is estimated: IN THIS GENERAL AREA (WE THINK) A BLACK MAN ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory December 17,2019 )
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Ezra Pound [Pound, Ezra]

. . . . . Chaucer is aware of life … parity with Shakespeare. He is informed, and understands the intellectual conquests of Europe … in a way that Will ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics December 17,2019 )
Interzone by William S. Burroughs
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]

An Advertising Short for Television: “So there they are, these two young kids, naked in a jungle clearing under a great, cheesy moon so big and close, like a big ...
( Category: Short Stories December 17,2019 )
The Knights Hospitaller by Nicholson Helen
epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Nicholson, Helen [Nicholson, Helen]

1Abbé René d’Aubert de Vertot, Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis Chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd’hui Chevaliers de Malthe, 5 vols (Paris, 1726), 3, pp. ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic December 12,2019 )

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